Polyside chair

Robin Day's Polyside chair is one of the most successful designs in furniture-making history. Immediately familiar to generations of schoolchildren, the Polyside chair was first produced in 1963 as an affordable seating solution. It was the first seat to be injection moulded in Polypropylene, a plastic which had only been invented in the 1950s. Injection moulding meant that the seat could be mass-produced on a scale unimaginable with other production techniques.

Still made by Hille, the company with which Robin Day worked for many years, in Ebbw Vale in Wales.